Desktop vs Server for newbies

[kdeuler]

Just a general question: For newbies, what is the difference between Desktop and Community Server versions. What are the tradeoffs/capabilities of each.

At least one Youtuber in his installation vlog says he prefers to use the server version, but doesn't say why.

Thanks!

[michael_hunger]

I wrote this answer not long ago, lemme know if it helps

Coming back to Neo4j after some time and wondering what to install for some personal playing around Newbie Questions

Desktop is also no strings attached, it includes free Neo4j Enterprise Developer licences and is just a much better experience than the old crappy installer. It also allows you to create multiple graphs for different projects, install apoc, graph-algos and graphql with a button click and also install (and develop) graph apps, e.g. for monitoring, modeling etc. You cannot install desktop on top of a server install (community or enterprise) but you can copy your graph data over.

[dennisleedevelo]

I have been using Desktop to connect with my development database on a server (using connect to remote graph feature). I hope to continue using this feature for my production database if possible.

[kdeuler]

OK Thanks. I'll start with Desktop.